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Take, for example, the quadriceps, the large muscles on the front of the thighs that help raise and lower the legs. "It's common knowledge that patients with osteoarthritis of the knee will have weakness in the quadriceps," says Dr. Kenneth Brandt, a rheumatologist at Indiana University in Indianapolis. For a long time, physicians assumed this was because their patients' pain prevented them from exercising. But five years ago, Brandt and his colleagues began studying a group of 400 elderly people living in central Indiana and discovered, much to their surprise, that weakness in the quadriceps in some cases preceded...
...makes sense. The stronger the muscles, the greater the load they take off the joint, thus limiting damage to the cartilage. Brandt's group is trying to determine whether healthy seniors who strengthen their quads by doing exercises with elastic-bands can delay, or possibly prevent, the disabling consequences of osteoarthritis in their knees...
...These biological concepts are the reality, and I think if people understand that, it explains a lot of why men act the way they do and women act the way they do,” Brandt says. “Of course, not every guy is out there catting around and not every woman is in it for her own self-interest. But I think about my own life, and I think we can all think about our lives in this sense, and some elements of the argument seem to apply. In my case, so many misunderstood one-night stands...
...environment at Harvard has even been pointed to as a breeding ground for female-female competition of the exact type that Brandt emphasizes in her argument. When 19 girls founded the Seneca in 1999, they saw these competitive tendencies—and the problems they created—as one the key problems in the Harvard community. “One goal [of the Seneca] is that we want to create a support system for women and really get to know each other in non-competitive setting,” a hopeful Alexandra B. Seru...
However, many female social clubs later, the problem of competition between females at Harvard still exists, and Brandt says competition between females is the driving force behind environments saturated with cheating...